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The first part episode 25 NARUTO) Rock Lee & His
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I didn't know they were slightly green. But in the above image, they are too saturated. And I am a man who likes his accuracy, even in anime crossover fan art. I suppose I should also be asking why she's wearing red and yellow instead of green and beige, especially since that style of outfit is clearly Earth Kingdom, but that's trivial. More trivial than eye colour, I suppose.

Sabuza's death scene is still one of the best in the entire manga/anime, so many emotions.

But I think the reason why Gaara's become stronger after losing Shikaku is because he stopped relying on its power, even if he tried not to before. Plus the fact that with Shikaku gone, his mothers protective spirit could probably do better work than before, now that nothing else is interfering, letting him focus himself entirely on offense.

Anyway thats my theory, Gaara's always been my favourite character so I was happy to see him relevant in the manga once again.

Shippuden is essentially a reboot of the story, where the characters are older, the story is more interesting (IMO), and the antagonists of the series become much more legitimate threats. I'm not sure what episodes are put on Toonami, but they may very well be from when Naruto was younger. Overall, a pretty good story, definitely worth giving a shot.

Shippuden is just a continuation of Naru It's like Dragonall Z to Dragonball. Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura go off to train for 3 years with different teachers and Naruto comes back when Shippuden starts. The characters look a little different, and is more geared towards an older audience since it deals with more death and violence. It's really good, the first arc will make Naruto look like a joke in terms of fighting and strength, kinda the same way Dragonall Z made Dragonball look like a joke in terms of strength.

Eh, not really. It was clumsy with a lot of forgettable moments. What did Kakashi, Lee, Guy, Ten Ten and Neji really add to the arc by being there?

Kakashi and Naruto had to go off and chase Dedara but it's so boring and uninspired. It opened well enough with Gaara v Dedara and Kankuro v Sasori but it petered out from there. Sasori's final fight was cool and all but I do wish Sakura had done something interesting. Really she just spent the time being strong which is cool and all but she really suffers from not having any definitive moves to use.

The same with most of the shippuden arcs. There are really good elements but terrible ones as well. Jiraiya vs Pain was fantastic but Naruto vs Pain was underwhelming. Here was a chance to really have naruto's wits and versatility tested and it came down to Rasengans every single time. They were interesting and kinda tactical but it's nothing compared with the sound 5 arc. Hell, at least the sound 5 arc had the balls to have consequences. Tons of people die in the Pain arc, most of the village in fact, but they don't stay dead for long. Hell, we don't even get an explanation about people crushed in the rubble. Are they still dead?

Hidan & Kakuzu? Well Kakuzu's fight was really un-memorable. It came down to a boring setting with repetitive and uninteresting things happening that happened to end with Naruto coming in, saving the day with a rasengan and setting the tone for the rest of the series.

Hidan v Shikamaru though is a freaking masterpiece. It's simple, memorable, cathartic and shows how versatile a thinker shikamaru is. If Kakuzu had just died because of Hidan's attack, the arc would have ended on a high note and shikamaru would have beaten two of the akatsuki without the need for any overpowered ninjutsu.

Truth is that shippuden really was a step backwards from the original series. It has a lot of factors that could have worked but they were very poorly handled and that hurt the things that were really good.

Technically my opinion would be that it's either good/bad. That is a criticism based on observable factors tempered with my opinion on those factors. Criticism is fact based on the industry standards. Opinion is wether you like those facts or not.

So it's a little more than 'just' my opinion but I can see where you're coming from. Here's the meme that goes with the text, if you've room in your reaction folder for it.

Well, i'm not trying to hate. It's all you if you like shippuden or not and it's not my place to tell you how to spend your free time. The whole naruto using nothing but the rasengan and shadow clones is a critical aspect of the series though. It shows that he's not a genius at ninjutsu and he can get around and win his fights with his simple, but effective bag of tricks. He mostly uses his taijutsu anyway, and now that he's learned frog kumite from the toads on mount myoboku it's even more so. That, and the influence of his tailed beast mode and 9 tails chakra mode makes it kinda unnecessary to use anything else anyway. All and all, I salute you for pointing out your opinion on the show without fear of fanboy backlash and thank you for the reaction pic. Good day sir!

It's all cool, dude. It's how a fanbase is meant to act. We like/dislike things respectfully.

But I'll point out that whilst Naruto's skillset is explained, it is not justified. The trick to making a good simple character ability is to make the one ability versatile so that it can be used in a number of different and creative ways. The perfect example of this is Monkey D. Luffy's simple ability of being a man made from rubber. Because of that he has a surprisingly massive set of skills he can use and no two bosses have ever faced the same defeat.

As much as I dislike Ichigo from Bleach he too has a very simple and versatile ability in that he uses a sword and throws energy around in the form of his Getsuga.

Compare this to Naru When it comes down to it Naruto in the original series ended his main fights with a Rasengan and that was the fight with sasuke. Up until that point it had been a straight back and forth with a lot of interesting choreography until their releases came out and things took a different direction culminating in the iconic ending of the original series (at least of the canon arcs.)

Haku was beaten with a punch aided by Kurama. Kiba was beaten with the Naruto Combo. Neji was beaten with an attack from underground. Gaara was beaten with the aid of the Boss Frog. He didn't really beat anyone in the finding Tsunade arc but his first rasengan hit home.

In all of the arcs the main antagonist was defeated memorably by other people whilst Naruto dealt with his own antagonists on his own level. Shipuden though every fight ends up the same. Naruto fights enemy, enemy beats him about, showcasing his jutsu and then naruto ends the fight with some kind of rasengan and it's always right to the stomach. He also doesn't get to do anything really cool in those fights that doesn't revolve around the rasengan. The only really interesting fight was with the four tails vs Orochimaru because it was different and interesting.

You have a point, the whole story plan of 1) Good guy shows up 2) Good guy gets **** kicked out of him by much more powerful enemy 3) Good guy miraculously recovers while learning bad guys' weakness and defeating him with signature move is exactly what made me stop watching shows like fairy tale and supernatural. The only reason I still really stick with naruto is because I've invested so much time in watching it I figure I may as well keep at it. Plus, they still haven't shown the 5 kage fighting the real madara yet

I stick with FT because I ADORE the world they created. The writing is horrible and you're forgetting the constant deus ex machina and constant spouting of friendship to the point where I question if the mangaka even knows what friendship is.

I suggest you take a look at a manga called Kingdom. Not the anime, the Anime's nowhere near on the same level. The second season's not as bad as the first but it still suffers greatly from changing the names of the characters and the inclusion of colour and massive degradation in terms of detail in the art really hurts the series badly. (Plus there's occasional bits of CG in the 2nd season and it's EVERYWHERE in the 1st.)

The writing in Kingdom is a drug. It is the best I have ever seen a shounen get in terms of writing. The main character is similar to other protagonists but different enough to leave his mark and the best part is that people die. People die a LOT. The villains don't come back to life or turn good and the heroes die like heros should do. The series has a brilliant grasp of tension and juggles a cast of many characters very well. A lot of them get very little backstory put into them but it honestly doesn't matter. The series works regardless.

It's a far cry from Naruto and FT in terms of it's art and subject matter including a hefty amount of politics but y'know what? It works. This is a manga about war. Real war. Not the One Piece Marinford war which was just one battle between opposing factions or the Naruto war which is thousands of guys fighting a couple of super-powerful villains and stock monsters.

This is a series about folk from different backgrounds in the same story being affected by wars that they are fighting in, that their friends are fighting in, that they are ordering people to fight in and the constant power-struggle between warring nations.

Seriously, this is the kind of manga that comes around once in a generation and it is glorious.

But then again, when you think about it - a lot of the characters in Naruto, have very simple skillsets.. You mentioned Shikamaru.. How many jutsus does he have/know? Not a lot I'd say.. In the manga, Naruto has learned to utilize the enormous ammount of chakra provided by Kurama (example: when he linked every combatant on the field, so Minato could transport them outside of the barrier set by Obito ..

To me, it wouldn't make sense if he all of a sudden, learned dozens of new techniques, because he wasn't like that in Ninja-school.. He was below-average, and failed to do a even simple Bunshin no jutsu (before gathering the scroll)..
Naruto never won because he had lots of techniques, but because he's smart on the battlefield - because he knows HOW to use his jutsus, and when to use them - and, in what combo..

TL;DR - Naruto is not booksmart/a genius (such as Neji or the Uchiha) - but he's streetsmart :o)

4: Personality. Naruto is bland as a brick. He is such a typical shounen protagonist that anyone who has seen even a small amount of shounen has seen him too many times already. He is stupid and unskilled but determined to prove himself otherwise. This is perfect shounen material because he is easy to relate to and it means his opponents can be clever and cunning and he just has to be strong (and occasionally a little bit smart/lucky) in order to get by. Compared to more interesting characters like Shikamaru who are all about wits and tactics naruto is easy to write and younger viewers won't get lost in his plans.

This isn't such a bad thing on it's own but it means not only are his fights uninteresting and uninspired but so are the talking parts in between them as well. It's all about how Naruto is stupid and doesn't care how things are 'meant' to happen, because he's stubborn and will change the minds of all the old, stuffy, nasty people so that they're on his side now.

Unlike One Piece where this is done really well (mainly because Luffy is absolutely oblivious to everything that is going on around him and doesn't constantly say the same thing over and over... though his yelling gets old after a while) in Naruto it is really grating.

It gets worse when you realise that Naruto is broken from the bottom to the top. His lonely childhood makes no sense, his lack of skills makes no sense I would love to go into detail about these but I'm at the 400 mark and running out of characters.

5: Kishimoto just isn't a good writer. He might have been at one point. Certainly the original series of Naruto showed he had skill in writing. There were massive plot-holes surrounding Naruto's character but they didn't matter because the show drew attention away from them with great characters, action, interaction, story and morals. But post-time-skip all we see is fan-fic. Where the main character is the messiah and everyone loves him, even the bad guys sooner or later.

Shikamaru's abilities are simple but astoundingly versatile and it's that versatility where he succeeds and Naruto fails. Naruto's problem is deeper than I went into but I'll go there now.

1: Rasengan. This has become the bane of the series. It and it's variations have been the end of every one of Naruto's fights in shippuden and it always hits in the same location. The only time it didn't hit someone square in the stomach was when he hit one of the pains in the back with two of them, and that is a memorable moment because of it. Naruto's abilities are used astoundingly poorly not by him, but by Kishimo What is the point of caring about a character who never has to adapt to the situation? The reason we remember Shikamaru's fights is that they are each very different from each other. Naruto's fights in the original series? Different. Shippuden? They all end the same way. Rasengan to the stomach.

2: Lack of imagination. Not only do Naruto's shippuden fights lack imagination in terms of variation, his abilities lack imagination in terms of execution too. He replicates himself, punches people and uses balls/shurikens of energy. It's simple but that might have worked if it was used imaginatively but since it's not it's simplicity becomes it's second biggest downfall because he is never interesting to see fight. Each fight all that changes is his outfit.

3: Co-operation. Naruto has become so strong that he can no-longer cooperate with any of the main characters we grew up with because they slow him down. The only one close enough to his level is Sasuke and he has only just re-appeared. Because of this we've had to push those other characters to the side more and more and focus on new characters so that Naruto can have people on his level to the point that the battle currently going on has 3 characters we have barely met fighting alongside naru

Fighting together is interesting. Ina/shika/chou show that. It works best when we know/care for all those involved.

I agree for the most part. Kakashi, who is said to have mastered a thousand Jutsu, should have taken Deidara down a lot faster with a Fuuton Jutsu, which his explosions couldn't stop. Sakura, in my own personal opinion, is still utterly worthless and everyone who likes her seems to go on about her fight with Sasori, despite that the only thing she did in that fight was find a cure to a poison that Sasori should have replaced.

Naruto vs Pain /was/ good though, it did test his wits, the only problem was that Kishi didn't give Naruto any real moves to use OTHER than Rasengan. Naruto has the lowest Jutsu count in the entire series because of how crippled he was as a child and Kishi didn't want to just give him a bunch of Jutsu out of no where... even if he deserved them. The only other Jutsu he could have done was the Sexy Jutsu... which might have flustered Pain a bit, since he is Jiraiya's student.

I do admit that I loved the Sound 5 Arc though... Tayuya is still my favorite character in the series, despite her small screen time.

I'm not really sure what to say about the Hidan / Kakuzu fight. Don't really remember much except Kakashi stabbing Kakuzu, Hidan being tricked, and a giant rasengan.

That's kind of the point about Kakuzu. He's forgettable and it's Hidan that we all remember.

And whilst that is an explaination of Naruto's abilities it's not a justification. When push comes to shove the needs of the viewer come before the needs of the story. A good story is both entertaining and well written. Entertainment minus the story is Transformers: 2 and it doesn't work in reverse either.

Naruto was pushed as the underdog character but I can't see why when he has the biggest advantage in the village, the Kyuubi (which is horribly handled because ffs you don't take the kid with a rage-monster inside and shun and abuse him, leaving him alone in his rage and misery... what the **** , bro?)

Naruto's biggest boon has always been his ability to use big moves because he has a lot of Chakara. But then we see him use the Rasenshuriken, a move which not even his father could perfect and that guy learned the most precise jutsu in the series so that theory is out the window.

He should have been given a more interesting gimmick and y'know what? The best fight he had in shippuden was with Orochimaru, where he didn't use the Rasengan and his entire fighting style was different.

I'm not going to say it is impossible for Naruto's move-set to be used well, because the original series did it fantastically, (See comment #31 below) I'm saying kubo is the problem. He just isn't that good a writer. Either that or his skill seems to have disappeared after Naruto fought Sasuke.